http://www.ipersec.com internet Performance & Security Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:49:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 fr I just switched ipersec to a new server platform (two quad core servers, each with 4GB RAM). My plan is to build a HA platform (mainly active/passive). The two servers aren't on the same network, preventing me from using heartbeat (there might be a trick, but my knowledge of heartbeat is ... http://www.ipersec.com/index.php/2008/11/19/switching-to-a-new-server/ Why I don't like PHP After having spent quite a few years programming PHP (from functional to OO programming), I just realized I don't really like this language. The main problems I think are with PHP being : The lack of consistency : functions not always follow the same naming conventions (underscore, ... http://www.ipersec.com/index.php/2008/09/01/switching-from-php-to-ruby/ Me voici de retour après une longue absence loin d'ipersec (mais bien active par ailleurs). En attendant de reprendre la publication de nouveaux articles techniques, voici quelques conseils de lecture hors-sujet : Le blog de Maître Eolas, où officie un avocat qui ne manque pas de verve Si la sécurité (au sens large) ... http://www.ipersec.com/index.php/2008/09/01/quelques-conseils-de-lecture/ I just talked at the Forum PHP Paris about tuning and cache. The talk was titled "Optimisation d'un site web 2.0 : le cas wat.tv". Here are the slides (in french). http://www.ipersec.com/index.php/2007/11/22/slides-from-forum-php-paris/ I've been playing with varnish for a few days now. Until now, I have been using lighttpd as an HTTP accelerator, in front of my apache servers. I love lighttpd a lot : it is simple, very efficient, and quite customizable through lua. But it is not a great HTTP accelerator ... http://www.ipersec.com/index.php/2007/11/15/varnish-simple-and-fast-http-acceleration/